Simulation of Rough Surface Scattering in Three-Dimensions

Abstract

The standard iterative approach has been used to solve the integral equation for the surface current density on a perfectly conducting surface. The number of iterations necessary was established to be only one to obtain a good agreement (within 1dB) between the iterative method and the standard moment method when the incidence angle was smaller than 60 degrees and the rms slope smaller than 0.4. While three-dimensional surface scattering problem can be solved with this method, it was found to be time consuming. For this reason further study has been made to look for a more effective method by finding an optimum basis function to represent the unknown field. During the past quarter a spectral representation was used to represent the scattered field and the tangenital boundary condition was used to determine the scattered field directly. Initial test was carried out for a two-dimensional surface scattering problem. It was found that an hour calculation on VAX 8700 using the standard moment method could be reduced to 3 minutes with the present technique. (jhd)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 15, 1989
Accession Number
ADA215171

Entities

People

  • A. K. Fung
  • P. M. Chen

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Arlington

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Backscattering
  • Boundaries
  • Current Density
  • Electric Fields
  • Equations
  • Integral Equations
  • Integrals
  • Polarization
  • Scattering
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.